The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-10
Local and state Notes.

the same thing was being done at other Western
points.
Local and State Notes.
The j.. NJ. & 1. have just placed on their road
irst-class new engine built at the Altoona
shops. 1t is numbered COB
The c., l., St. L. & G. has commenced the
erection of new depot at Stockwell and the
lengthening of the side tracks at that point.
Conductor Hunter, of the Wabash road, has
resigned, and on Sunday goes to Denver to ac-
cept better position on the Union Pacific road
w. III. Crimson was promoted, yesterday, to
the position of trainmaster on the Chicago e.
Indiana Coal road, with headquarters at Attica.
The Globe fast-freght. line has become much
of weakling, and its cars being used by
the B. & o. Kankakee dispatch in large num-
bers.
. Freight traffic over the Lake Erie & Western
road is now the heaviest in its history. Six reg
ular and three to five extra trains are run over
the road daily.
The Indiana Midland road has just completed
new depot at Lebanon which would be credit
TO a trunk line. tits commodious and attractive
in style OF architecture.
Charles Macaba. agent of the Chicago G. Alton
on the Pacific coast. died at San Francisco on
Thursday. The deceased was one of the best
known passenger mon in the West.
The Terre Haute & Logansport has changed
its running time, leaving South Bend forty-hve
minutes earlier than formerly, which insures
their making a good connection at Colfax with
the c., l.. st. L. 81 O. evening train south.
BENJAMIN f. Bruf the veteran expressman,
who died at Lafayette on Thursday, carried in
Burance policies in several associations From
the Expressmens Mutual Benevolent Assoca-
ton his legal representatives will receive 81 000
W. W. Kent, who recently left the Toledo,
Peoria & Western road to take the position of
general passenger agent on the Jacksonville e.
Southeastern. now has 800 miles of road under
his Jurisdiction, so far as the passenger business
is concerned.
The News of last evening SAYS il is alleged that
travelling agent Perry of the Chicago q Alton,
is giving SIS off on tickets to secure passengers.
ON "a q n
cut of SIS being the rule, not an exception, on
Kansas City business.
The Lake Erie 8 Western people are feeling
good over the handsome earnings the road is
making They say that the earnings the last
eight months show an increase of $685. 000
sum sufficient to pay fixed charges and per
cent. dividend on the preferred stock.
The many friends of Geo. w. Tyer the veter-
passenger conductor on the c., l., St L. 81
c. road, who was seriously Ill for some weeks,
will be pleased to learn that he has improved to
such extent that he is able to get about 1t
is hardly probable however. that he will again
take train.
The need Of a more commodious Union depot
at this point was never more apparent than at
the present time. Travel is immense, and the
large amount of baggage and express matter
which is handled makes it almost impossible to
get safely about the depot when a number Of
trains are in.
The c., l., St L. g c. road will cross the Chi
caRo division of the Atchison, Topeka % Santa
Fe at Mazon about ninety miles southwest of
Chicago and will be the only road running out
OF IndianApolis that will cross the Santa Fe.
However, should the l.. D. & S. build their pro-
posed extension they will cross it.
The Lake Erie g. Western people will need to
look after their passenger business on the l., 2.
& @. division. Their time is so slow that a per-
can leave LaPorte, over the Lake Shore
road. to South Bend, then take the Terre
Haute 81 Logansport division of the Vandalia.
connecting with the c., l., St L. & G. at Colfax,
and make better time.
The engineering corps of the Chicago & In
diana Block coal road have made three sur |
veys of lines to connect the road with the Chi |
& Eastern Illinois The contract to build |
the extensions will probably be lot before the |
present month expires. This company has just |
commenced the erection of a round house of six |
stalls capacity at Brazil, Ind |
It is said that o. W. Bell, now superintendent |
of the Michigan d Ohio road, is to De appointed |
general superintendent of the Toledo, ST. Louis |
g. Kansas City road. The heavier rails and |
standard gauge are being distributed the |
western division. but the time has not yet been |
fixed upon to make the change.
The Union Railway certainly show DISPOSE
ton to act honorably in the payment of damages
for property they take to carry out the improve
ments now in progress. The company has
settled with Henry Coburn, paving him s34, Ooo
larger sum than the arbitration commission
fixed upon. The Union Railway Company also
put a switch to his present yard.
The Brush Electric Light Company furnish
the Union Railway Company with light for their
station at $3.50 per month the year round. There
are those who doubt the advisabity of the
Union Railway Company attempting to light |
the new station by their own works as the con-
tract they have with the Brush Electric Light
Company is favorable one. They offer to |
furnish any number OF electric lights at proper
tionately low figures
One of the ambitions of M. E. Ingalls,, presi-
dent or the G.. l., St. J.. & G., is to have a
double track between Cincinnati and Indanapo-
lis. when the improvements now in progress
are completed, the track will be double for q
distance of fifteen miles out of Cincinnati and
for four and aquarter miles out of Indianapolis.
He is quoted as saying that should the business
Of the road continue good for three wears to
come as 1t has been the last three years il is
more than probable he will carry out his pet |
idea.
prominent railroad attorney Yesterday
dropped the remark that the Toledo Peoria e |
Western would be in the hands of 4 receiver
within a week, as it had been intimated that the |
interest its bonds, due Dec. l. would not be |
paid There is excellent authority for saving |
that the company would have settled with every |
sufferer through the late Chatsworth disasters |
had the sufferers been patient long enough for
the directors to have made arran gements to get
the money needed. Stops had been taken prior
to the first suit being brought looking to such
an end but now the litigation has reached such
n point, and so many lawyers. says of the
officers. have taken hand that any attempt to |
adjust damages would be useless.
General and miscellaneous.
The Ola CoIoDv road ia introducing very pen-